期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
电子版ISSN：2231-2803
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：2-2
出版社：Seventh Sense Research Group
摘要：Due to the nature of spatial queries, an LBS needs the user position in order to pro cess her requests. On the other hand, revealing exact user locations to a (potentially untrusted) LBS may pinpoint their identities and breach their privacy. To address this issue, spatial anonymity techniques obfuscate user locations, forwarding to the LBS a sufficiently large region instead. Existing methods explicitly target processing in the Euclidean space, and do not apply when proximity to the users is defined according to network distance (e.g., driving time through the roads of a city). In this paper, we propose a framework for location based services. We design location obfuscation techniques that (i) provide anonymous LBS access to the users, and (ii) allow efficient query processing at the LBS side. Our techniques exploit existing network database infrastructure, requiring no specialized storage schemes or functionalities. We experimentally compare alternative designs in real road networks and demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques. We will find out the best location based route.
